LoL: Lodis vs Forsaken (BO3) - Rift Legends Regular Season

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Market context

Lodis and Forsaken are scheduled for a best-of-three in the Rift Legends regular season, and the market’s 0% YES implies the contract is pricing in either a missed listing, a stale schedule, or an outcome path that the crowd considers effectively impossible at the current snapshot. The cleanest programmatic read is to treat the event as a standard BO3 resolution keyed off the official match result, while also checking for any postponement or cancellation logic before the settlement window closes.

Historical and comparable data point strongly towards Forsaken. Their Spring meeting ended 2–1 to Forsaken, and third-party match pages also show Forsaken leading the head-to-head 5–1 across six meetings, with the most recent completed series again going to Forsaken. Similar Rift Legends pricing on other venues has reflected that same lean, with Forsaken typically quoted as the favourite and Lodis treated as the underdog, so a zero-per-cent crowd price here is better read as an extreme market dislocation than as a genuine edge case.

For a trading workflow, the key catalysts are operational rather than tactical: confirm whether the fixture is still on the published schedule, whether a stream or match page goes live, and whether any late bracket or server notices appear before the 2026-08-12T00:30:00Z cutoff. If you are automating, poll the event page and any tournament schedule feed for status changes, then suppress copy-trading or conditional entries until the match is officially live, because a no-show, cancellation, or delay beyond seven days would force a 50–50 resolution instead of a team win.

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Methodology

This page is a comparison snapshot: one live quote, four reference venues with their key attributes, and a single execution path — every trade button routes to Polymarket Review UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

Resolution & payout

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

Once finalised, the smart contract pays USDC to the holders' wallets within minutes — no withdrawal fees beyond Polygon network gas. Kalshi settles in USD via CFTC clearance, Betfair in account currency net of commission, Manifold in play-money mana with no cash-out.

UK Frequently Asked Questions

How does resolution work?

Through the UMA Optimistic Oracle on Polygon: a proposer submits the outcome, a two-hour challenge window opens, and USDC payouts settle automatically once the result is final.

What's the difference between YES and NO shares?

A YES share pays $1.00 if the event happens, $0 otherwise. A NO share pays $1.00 if the event doesn't happen. The market price between 0¢ and 100¢ is the implied probability.

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